Mapping Europe into local climate zones
Mapping Europe into local climate zones
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0214474
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发表时间：
2019-04-24
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Mills, Gerald
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作者：
Demuzere, Matthias;Bechtel, Benjamin;Mills, Gerald
城市是各种规模的环境变化的主要驱动力，特别容易受到随之而来的影响，包括空气质量差，洪水和热浪。由于建筑景观、当地地形和排放模式的空间复杂性，这些问题通常在逐个城市的基础上进行研究。然而，为了确保知识共享并将地方规模的进程与区域和全球规模的建模举措相结合，迫切需要建立一个适合环境研究的世界范围的城市数据库。在本文中，我们提出了一个欧洲的数据库，特别注重城市化景观的特点。它是利用作为世界城市数据库和访问门户工具项目的一部分开发的工具和技术得出的，该项目的目标是获取和传播关于世界各地城市的气候相关信息。欧洲地图是创建全球城市数据库的第一个重要步骤，该数据库可以与现有的地形和自然土地覆盖数据库相结合，以支持建模举措。
Cities are major drivers of environmental change at all scales and are especially at risk from the ensuing effects, which include poor air quality, flooding and heat waves. Typically, these issues are studied on a city-by-city basis owing to the spatial complexity of built landscapes, local topography and emission patterns. However, to ensure knowledge sharing and to integrate local-scale processes with regional and global scale modelling initiatives, there is a pressing need for a world-wide database on cities that is suited for environmental studies. In this paper we present a European database that has a particular focus on characterising urbanised landscapes. It has been derived using tools and techniques developed as part of the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) project, which has the goal of acquiring and disseminating climate-relevant information on cities worldwide. The European map is the first major step toward creating a global database on cities that can be integrated with existing topographic and natural land-cover databases to support modelling initiatives.